Helm's Deep Query

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Originally Posted by Jandar Trublade

Speaking of technology, does anyone think it strange that in the three thousand or so years between the battle of the last alliance and the war of the ring, no one had invented anything? Elves still use bows and arrows, men still swing swords , dwarves still can't see over small walls etc. i.e. in only the last one hundred or so years men have taken to the skies and developed the a-bomb... or am I just taking things too seriously.....?

Gandalf looks up just in time to see the a-bomb dropping from the fell beasts claws.

the doors break open and goblins burst in with assault rifles

the witch king commands the battle from the air in his Black hawk.

oh and....
the men of helms deep found it had been a good investment to install bren guns on the deepling wall.